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Wealhtheow, Hrothgar's wife is called ides Helminga ("lady of the Helmings") in Beowulf (610), which means that she belonged to Helm's clan and was a Wulfing. [160] Heodenings Old English: Heodeningas, Old Norse: Hjaðningar, Middle High German: Hegelinge *Heðaningas, from the personal name Heoden or maybe meaning "people of the skins".
Joseph Magandaazi Yiga (born 1957), Ugandan businessman and entrepreneur; A clan of assassins who are characters of the Legend of Zelda series; Yiga Choeling Monastery in Ghum, West Bengal, India-yiga, a semblative case suffix in the indigenous Australian Wagiman language; The Yiga Clan, a group of evil, banana-loving ninjas in the Legend of Zelda
Life Healing Sect (救世教), also known by its corporate name Community of the Awakening to the Goodness (悟善社) Way of the True Emptiness (真空道) Confucian Way of the Gods (儒宗神教) Harmonious Church of the Three-in-One (三一教协会) Black Dragon School (黑龍門) Dragon Slaying Gang (屠龍幫) Shennong Gang (神農幫)
During the 1960s trend for action-adventure spy thrillers, it was a common practice for fictional spy organizations or their nemeses to employ names that were contrived acronyms. Sometimes these acronyms' expanded meanings made sense, but most of the time they were words incongruously crammed together for the mere purpose of obtaining a catchy ...
Wuxia (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television dramas, films, and video games.
The Britia Empire is a fantasy land in the South Korean web novel, Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp by Yuin, and the Japanese anime series adaptation of the same name. Minchester de Romanoff (voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue) He is a widowed ailing emperor whose health problems are caused by lymphoma. He is thankful towards Lady Elise de ...
This is a list of many important or pivotal fictional figures in the history of the Warhammer Fantasy universe.. These characters have appeared in the games set in the Warhammer world, the text accompanying various games and games material, novels by Games Workshop and later Black Library and other publications based on the Warhammer setting by other publishers.
The world in which Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 take place. Final Fantasy X: 2001: V Temerant: Patrick Rothfuss: The setting for The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. The Name of the Wind: 2007: N Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension".